Grimes may refer to:
Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.
I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.
I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.
I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!
Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.
Especially with music, people want confidence.
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.
Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle.
From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.
It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant.
I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.
If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld - I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.
I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.
I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and. . . I just need to be comfortable.
I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.
If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just. . . all the time!